Amazing! [[Simple harmonic motion]] doesn't mention Quantum Mechanics.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 7:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: PI on a sphere (OT: was Coding for the future) On Fri, 18 Jun 2021 18:26:21 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: >Seems to me, then, that we're agreed on this: On the surface of a sphere, >the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter varies depending >on the size of the circle (and, of course, that of the sphere). And your >assertion is "...but that's not the definition of pi". > Note instances of π in such as: https://secure-web.cisco.com/1LLk3tLJcnbpAwRJSClyR4PVXhcuAq4vmNhNggtA1de7G5NnXyLPIR0zgAi9z7FAM9sNCcz7txNipNsmjlzUI62tEzXBaX5rX4Opk_sgOzi70yQdbIGYF2wGZnu6MbekxADIq_2bjpgjJLFGmTxxKm1ESO2ZnBW2MBvZVdWKG-jyGE28TugVkA4CFcmOl0egjVoZHCj74TKlZ8QlbpFu-Xd4BV5LLFSo0S7yzuCjLrFuqFeQNwCQ3oH5ih-qG-BLQvAHObu--PX3Oh3OLgQaKx-9I_VEm62Hs3LC9LxGiBiUEMTbCvm6ldYWCzVZRnRmwjG4FKoFyQ2_-llre83j1x4Ah3MWiePn3gJhnT1RK61kkVOWJrs7x2lSX5NMAiTJhBsk6ql7RT0MxmLWuIgJJm9-YaAe2KOZlk1ULLqVYU_GVGlx2_QdpvEEF2CDAeoPE/https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSimple_harmonic_motion This can probably be generalized to non-Euclidean spaces. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
